In the fall of 2007 Matt Hunt from Retroactive Records asked me to do
another Seventh Power CD. He told me "while I was at it" to do an
instrumental CD with Robert Sweet, like it's no big deal, right? So we
threw some material together, and Robert tracked the drums to it. Matt
Hunt(the Dean of Retroactive Records), decided to call the group "Bill
Menchen". I was trying to think of an outrageous musician that I knew
that I could fill out the sound, and remembered that I had become
acquainted with Tony Franklin a few years earlier. I got in touch with
him, and he agreed to do it. After Matt Hunt heard the three of us
recorded he said it was "too good to not have vocals". So we searched
for a singer. The end result was Ken Redding formerly of His Witness,
who also has their long overdue CD coming out on Retroactive Records
this fall. After hearing the final result Matt Hunt decided to change
the name of the group to "Menchen". So there you have it, this whole
thing is not my fault (or credit?).


This is what I have found on MySpace and thought it's interesting to know now the new album of Menchen will be released soon.

That is funny.
I was kind of wondering why he went with a solo artist title. It would have made much more sense if it was a instrumental guitar album, but I agree the music is too good not to have vocals.

Thanks for posting that sister.

I wondered about the same Gary.

The thin that the last name goes well with the group. After all, most of us are checking this out because of Bill Menchen's previous efforts--not who the guest musicians are.

I'm looking forward to this becoming available.

I think he should have called the album "The Word of God".

Because I tend to pronounce "Menchen" almost exactly like the word "mention".

Then the album cover would have read like this...."Mention the Word of God"
(yes very clever I know).